"What this will do is allow us to get to that position much quicker than we would have," he added.

Mr Feehan said it was a small response to huge changes in the media industry.

"You just don't know where technology is going to go, and as technology changes you end up in a situation where you are obliged to make the best of the technology on the day, and as that happens you move with the times," he said.

"Technology on one hand is fantastic, it provides efficiencies, but unfortunately some of those efficiencies happen to be human capital."

Mr Feehan said other media had also changed in the town, with now newspapers being printed in Alice Springs and one going solely online.